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Film Censorship in America - A State-by-State History (Paperback): Jeremy Geltzer Film Censorship in America - A State-by-State History (Paperback)
Jeremy Geltzer
R1,242 R830 Discovery Miles 8 300 Save R412 (33%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Digital media delivers movies, music, and archives of information to our fingertips but not long ago morality police controlled content. This book focuses on the flamboyant state censors who tried to tame media and the filmmaking mavericks as they challenged the system. Forbidden films, banned b-movies, and European art house pictures are not just entertainment-they paved the way for greater free expression in America. In this state-by-state guide to battles over banned films, colorful characters come to life. Readers will discover the handlebar mustachioed, iron willed Major Metallus Lucullus Cicero Funkhouser, censor of Chicago, Lloyd T. Binford, the backwoods race-bating Memphis regulator, and Myrtelle Snell, the Alabama authority who popularized the slogan "Banned in Birmingham." On the other side are filmmakers who pushed the limits: including Robert Rodriguez who fought the Texas Film Commission over Machete Kills (2013), Ryan Reynolds's Deadpool (2016), charged with obscenity in Utah, and documentarians like Josh Fox and Frederick Wiseman, who clashed against whistleblower laws across the nation. These personalities, both familiar and newly rediscovered, tell an exciting story of the history of movies and the battle for free speech.

Dirty Words and Filthy Pictures - Film and the First Amendment (Paperback): Jeremy Geltzer Dirty Words and Filthy Pictures - Film and the First Amendment (Paperback)
Jeremy Geltzer
R749 R672 Discovery Miles 6 720 Save R77 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the earliest days of cinema, scandalous films such as The Kiss (1896) attracted audiences eager to see provocative images on screen. With controversial content, motion pictures challenged social norms and prevailing laws at the intersection of art and entertainment. Today, the First Amendment protects a wide range of free speech, but this wasn't always the case. For the first fifty years, movies could be censored and banned by city and state officials charged with protecting the moral fabric of their communities. Once film was embraced under the First Amendment by the Supreme Court's Miracle decision in 1952, new problems pushed notions of acceptable content even further. Dirty Words & Filthy Pictures explores movies that changed the law and resulted in greater creative freedom for all. Relying on primary sources that include court decisions, contemporary periodicals, state censorship ordinances, and studio production codes, Jeremy Geltzer offers a comprehensive and fascinating history of cinema and free speech, from the earliest films of Thomas Edison to the impact of pornography and the Internet. With incisive case studies of risque pictures, subversive foreign films, and banned B-movies, he reveals how the legal battles over film content changed long-held interpretations of the Constitution, expanded personal freedoms, and opened a new era of free speech. An important contribution to film studies and media law, Geltzer's work presents the history of film and the First Amendment with an unprecedented level of detail.

Passover - the Journey to Freedom (Paperback): Jeremy Geltzer Passover - the Journey to Freedom (Paperback)
Jeremy Geltzer
R410 Discovery Miles 4 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Let your kids read and learn all about Passover with this traditional retelling of Exodus. Passover - The Journey to Freedom is sure to become holiday tradition for your whole family.

Oscar Micheaux - A Self Made Man: Part of Behind the Scenes: A Young Person's Guide to Film History (Paperback): Jeremy... Oscar Micheaux - A Self Made Man: Part of Behind the Scenes: A Young Person's Guide to Film History (Paperback)
Jeremy Geltzer
R182 Discovery Miles 1 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For everyone who loves the movies, "Behind the Scenes: A Young Person's Guide to Film History, Vol. 1" reveals an exciting glimpse behind the screen and introduces filmmakers, screen icons and their most memorable movies. Oscar Micheaux, one of the earliest and most important African American filmmakers is featured in this book. As the son of former slaves, Oscar Micheaux would have never dreamed that making movies would be his calling. Oscar had energy, drive and vision--but it was his out-of-the-box thinking that became the key to his success. Micheaux's life is an American triumph: from working as a railroad porter to becoming a homesteader, author and movie director. Look for "Behind the Scenes: A Young Person's Guide to Film History, Vol. 1" with Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, the Lumiere brothers, Judy Garland and more

Charlie's Little Tramp - Part of Behind the Scenes: A Young Person's Guide to Film History (Paperback): Jeremy Geltzer Charlie's Little Tramp - Part of Behind the Scenes: A Young Person's Guide to Film History (Paperback)
Jeremy Geltzer
R180 Discovery Miles 1 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For everyone who loves the movies, "Behind the Scenes: A Young Person's Guide to Film History, Vol. 1" reveals an exciting glimpse behind the screen and introduces filmmakers, screen icons and their most memorable movies. This book focuses on Charlie Chaplin. As an impoverished youth in London, Charlie transformed into the most recognizable movie star in the world. With oversized shoes, a too-tight jacket, derby hat, and toothbrush mustache, the little tramp was born. Follow young Charlie to meet the Keystone Cops and discover the inane antics of Mack Sennett, Mabel Normand, "Fatty" Arbuckle and the rest of the pie-throwing gang. Look for "Behind the Scenes: A Young Person's Guide to Film History, Vol. 1" with Oscar Micheaux, Greta Garbo, the Lumiere brothers, Judy Garland and more

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